Industry-Leading Energy Management Systems & Microgrid Technology
GridVest has sought out the best Energy Management Systems (EMS) and Microgrid Controllers to integrate with our battery systems. These intelligent solutions optimize economic savings, manage critical backup loads, diesel generators, and microgrids for your energy operation.
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ETB Controller
The ETB Controller is an all-in-one energy management system for solar and battery energy storage, built to maximize the economic value of storage assets. Designed specifically for solar and storage professionals, it uses AI-enabled dispatch strategies to automatically optimize savings, revenue, and operational performance. As part of Energy Toolbase’s end-to-end platform, ETB Controller enables modeling, control, and monitoring from a single, trusted ecosystem.
AI-Driven Storage Optimization: Automatically optimizes dispatch every 15 minutes for demand charge management, time-of-use arbitrage, PV self-consumption, demand response, and backup operation.
End-to-End Solar + Storage Platform: Model, deploy, control, and monitor battery systems within one integrated Energy Toolbase workflow.
OEM & Incentive Compliant Controls: Operates within battery warranty requirements and incentive programs such as ITC and SGIP.
Flexible, Hardware-Agnostic Integration: Compatible with Tier 1 battery systems and industry-standard communication protocols.
Turnkey Controller & Easy Deployment: Pre-configured, all-in-one enclosure simplifies installation, commissioning, and day-one operation.
ARC Microgrid Controller
Ageto’s ARC microgrid controller is a mature, equipment-agnostic EMS that unifies solar PV, battery storage, generators, and loads in real time. It provides real-time control, historical trending, load shedding, and demand-rate optimization to deliver both resiliency and cost savings.
Resource-Agnostic Integration: Integrates with over 65 verified distributed energy resources including inverters, generators, weather stations, and meters for a highly flexible microgrid system design.
Real-Time Dispatch & Monitoring: Sends data every second, enabling second-by-second monitoring and dynamic balancing of load and generation to ensure system stability.
Utility Rate Optimization: Supports demand-charge management, time-of-use (TOU) shifting, and point-of-common-coupling (PCC) control to reduce utility bills for behind-the-meter systems.
Resilient Off-Grid Control: Manages generator paralleling, spinning reserve, and load shedding for microgrids operating in island mode or being fully independent from the grid.
Rugged, Deployable Hardware Options: Comes in ARC Pro (with active cooling and touchscreen) or ARC Lite (compact), both in NEMA 3R enclosures built for harsh environments.
Joule
Joule EMS by Ampragrid is an industrial-grade, edge-based controller built for developers and EPCs who need reliable, fast-to-deploy energy optimization for commercial and industrial storage projects. With its NEMA 3R hardware, vendor-independent architecture, and the proprietary OptimaEngine for real-time economic optimization, Joule ensures predictable peak-shaving performance and long-term ROI durability. Universal protocol support, built-in LTE, and plug-and-play installation shorten commissioning timelines, while utility rate intelligence and monthly performance reporting help contractors deliver bankable, data-driven value to their customers. Joule is engineered to streamline project delivery, maximize savings, and simplify lifecycle asset management across diverse C&I energy storage deployments.
Industrial-Grade, Onsite Reliability: NEMA 3R, −20°C to 70°C rated hardware ensures stable microgrid and BESS control without reliance on vendor cloud systems.
OptimaEngine Real-Time Economic Optimization: Continuously adapts to load profiles and tariff structures to enhance demand-charge reduction, peak shaving, and overall project ROI.
Rapid, Low-Friction Commissioning: Built-in LTE, standard terminal block wiring, and 48-hour scheduled commissioning support minimize onsite labor and accelerate project timelines.
Universal System Compatibility: Supports major inverter brands and up to 120 devices over RS485, RS232, CAN 2.0, WiFi, Ethernet, or LTE.
Utility Rate Intelligence & Performance Assurance: Automatically updates to changing utility rate structures and provides fault alerts, offline data storage, and monthly savings reports to protect project economics.
Battalion Energy
Battalion Energy delivers an enterprise-grade EMS and optimization platform built for both behind-the-meter and front-of-the-meter energy storage projects. Designed with a vendor-agnostic, API-driven architecture, Battalion provides a fully redundant, ultra-reliable control system with up to 99.9 percent uptime and 1-second monitoring. Its Optimization Engine supports full value stacking across retail, wholesale, and grid-services markets, enabling EPCs, developers, and owners to model, design, and operate complex BESS, solar + storage, microgrid, and distributed power plant projects. With real-time dispatch, machine learning forecasts, comprehensive grid-code compliance, and 95 percent less hardware than traditional EMS solutions, Battalion reduces lifecycle costs, improves project ROI, and provides a complete turnkey EMS, SCADA, and PPC package for any scale deployment.
Vendor-Agnostic Flexibility Supports major battery OEMs and uses an open, API-based architecture so developers can avoid vendor lock-in and optimize hardware procurement.
Ultra-Reliable Uptime Offers a fully redundant EMS design with hot-swap modules to deliver up to 99.9% uptime, ensuring mission-critical systems stay online.
Real-Time, High-Resolution Control Executes sub-second dispatch control with 1-second data collection, enabling fast market participation, frequency regulation, and multi-objective optimization.
Comprehensive Value Stacking The Optimization Engine supports full value stacking across retail (TOU), wholesale (arbitrage), and ancillary markets (regulation, reserves), so you can maximize revenue from every service layer.
Advanced Analytics & Remote Operations Provides cloud monitoring, secure remote control, ML-based forecasting, automatic alerts, and customizable dashboards so operators can manage performance, run predictive models, and troubleshoot from anywhere.
Stellar
New Sun Road’s Stellar Microgrid OS is a cloud-native EMS built for fleet-level monitoring, control, and optimization of distributed power systems (solar, storage, gensets). Paired with Stellar Edge the platform gives real-time visibility and remote command capability. Perfect for remote O&M, incident management, and data-driven optimization.
Portfolio management: Unified dashboard for all DER sites, regardless of device manufacturer.
Data-driven analytics: AI-generated insights and normalized data to track renewable usage, predict fuel needs, and trend performance.
Automated control: Remote or pre-programmed logic to send commands to inverters, generators, meters based on alerts or conditions.
Incident management: Automated alerts, ticketing, and reporting tools for O&M workflows.
Resilient connectivity: Local data logging plus server reconciliation protects against data loss if network goes down.
Rugged IoT gateway: Supports multiple protocols (Modbus, CAN, dry contacts), local caching, and field diagnostics via a built-in display.
Machine-learning driven optimization: Uses predictive control to minimize generator fuel costs and maximize renewable utilization.
REX EMS
The Acelerex REX EMS is a universal, cloud-enabled EMS built for hybrid BESS, solar + storage, microgrids, and grid-scale assets. Its architecture supports both site-level control and portfolio-level optimization, enabling operation of large and distributed BESS projects efficiently while maximizing market participation through its Market Decision Engine.
Market Decision Engine: Uses AI-driven price forecasts, stacked-service strategies, and digital twin simulations to automate bidding and real-time dispatch.
Flexible control modes: Supports charging, discharging, export limits, standby, and fast passthrough rules for frequency or grid events.
Digital twin modeling: Simulates future operating conditions and validates control strategies without real-world risk.
Forecasting tools: Predicts load, renewable generation, and market prices to maximize revenue and asset utilization.
Data and integration layer: Provides encrypted local database, SCADA/DAS connectivity (Modbus, DNP3, OPC-UA), API scheduling, remote HMI, and reporting.
Secure and reliable architecture: Includes onsite EMS appliances for local control with encrypted communications and redundant cloud connectivity.
MosEMS
Molecule’s MosEMS is a next-gen EMS built for flexible, resilient control of distributed energy resources (DERs). It combines MosEMS-Edge for real-time orchestration at the site with MosEMS-Cloud, a fully API-driven cloud EMS for fleet-level visibility and optimization. It enables DERs to operate autonomously, respond in real time to grid signals, and participate in VPPs — all while giving full flexibility via custom optimization logic.
Edge-based intelligence: Local control and decision-making even when disconnected from the cloud, for low latency and resilience.
Algorithm injection: You can deploy custom or AI-generated optimization logic directly into the EMS edge layer, enabling advanced, site-specific strategies.
Scalable cloud integration: The MosEMS-Cloud API manages large fleets and supports 1,000+ DER types without requiring onsite hardware.
VPP & grid services ready: Supports frequency, voltage, and ancillary market participation with real-time responsiveness.
Secure & resilient: Local decision-making minimizes latency and external dependencies, improving cyber-security and system uptime.
